Cfdm

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**2024-03-01**

* New keyword parameter to `cfdm.Field.insert_dimension`:
``constructs`` (https://github.com/NCAS-CMS/cfdm/issues/287)
* New example field `11`: discrete sampling geometry trajectory
features (https://github.com/NCAS-CMS/cfdm/issues/289)

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**2023-12-06**

* Python 3.7 support removed
(https://github.com/NCAS-CMS/cfdm/issues/274)
* Implemented the reading and manipulation of UGRID mesh topologies
for CF-1.11 (https://github.com/NCAS-CMS/cfdm/issues/270)
* New methods: `cfdm.Field.cell_connectivity`,
`cfdm.Field.cell_connectivities`
* New methods: `cfdm.Field.domain_topology`,
`cfdm.Field.domain_topologies`
* New methods: `cfdm.Field.del_mesh_id`, `cfdm.Field.get_mesh_id`,
`cfdm.Field.has_mesh_id`, `cfdm.Field.set_mesh_id`,
* New attribute: `cfdm.Data.sparse_array`
* New dependency: ``scipy>=1.10.0``

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**2023-08-31**

* Fix bug that prevented "https://" netCDF files from being read
(https://github.com/NCAS-CMS/cfdm/issues/268)

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**2023-07-21**

* Fix bug that caused very slow reads of datasets with compression by
gathering or DSG ragged arrays
(https://github.com/NCAS-CMS/cfdm/issues/260)
* Fix bug that prevented `cfdm.read` from accessing remote files in URL
locations (https://github.com/NCAS-CMS/cfdm/issues/262)

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**2023-04-26**

* New method: `cfdm.Data.get_data`
* Changes to facilitate CFA-netCDF in cf-python
(https://github.com/NCAS-CMS/cfdm/pull/255)
* `cfdm.read` now always returns unicode strings from netCDF files
(https://github.com/NCAS-CMS/cfdm/issues/251)
* Fix bug in `cf.Data.second_element` for some data shapes
(https://github.com/NCAS-CMS/cfdm/issues/249)
* Fix bug when writing to disk coordinates with a
``computed_standard_name`` (https://github.com/NCAS-CMS/cfdm/pull/254)

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**2023-03-10**

* New method: `cfdm.Field.del_properties`
(https://github.com/NCAS-CMS/cfdm/issues/241)
* New keyword parameter to `cfdm.unique_constructs`:
``ignore_properties`` (https://github.com/NCAS-CMS/cfdm/issues/240)
* New keyword parameter to `cfdm.NetCDFArray`: ``missing_values``
(https://github.com/NCAS-CMS/cfdm/issues/246)
* Fixed bug that caused `cf.write` to erroneously change external
netCDF variable names (https://github.com/NCAS-CMS/cfdm/issues/244)

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